Station Log

February, 2006: In the wake of Byron Preiss’s death in July, 2005, both iBooks and Byron Preiss Visual Productions have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and ceased operations. This means that the planned iBooks reissue of Exile has been cancelled, and the availability of my five earlier iBooks editions–from me or anyone else–is in all likelihood limited to stock on hand.

February, 2005: Alternities returns in a handsome trade paperback edition from iBooks. Cover art by Brandon Diaxz. ISBN 0-7434-9780-5 – $12.95 “This is the best parallel universe novel to come around in years” – David Brin

June 2004: iBooks brings Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Odyssey back in the first solo edition in English in more than ten years.

May, 2004: The galaxy-spanning conclusion of the Trigon Disunity future history, Empery, is reissued by iBooks in trade paperback and e-book. ISBN 0-7434-7910-6 – $11.95 Contains the bonus Merritt Thackery story “Menace,” which first appeared in Analog.

March, 2004: Volume Two of the Trigon Disunity future history, Enigma, is published as an e-book and trade paperback by iBooks (Simon & Schuster). This edition contains a bonus Advance Exploration Service short story, “The Inevitable Conclusion,” originally published in Amazing Stories.

September, 2002: Contract signed with iBooks, Inc. to reissue my long out-of-print Ace originals in both trade paper and electronic formats. The titles are Emprise, Enigma, Empery, Alternities, The Quiet Pools, and Exile. As a bonus, each of the Trigon Disunity volumes will contain one of the “lost stories” of Second Contact–“Antithesis,” “The Inevitable Conclusion,” and “Menace,” with introductions by A.E.S. archaeohistorian Rianth Janias. The first of the six to appear is Emprise, in November, 2003.

October 29, 2002: Vectors, my first solo novel in ten years, hit the bookstores as a Bantam Spectra paperback original.

March 21, 2002: Editions du Rocher publishes volume two of their translation of The Trigger as Le feu aux poudres, tome 2: L’Enrayeur. Translation by Guy Abadia. Still not seen are editions from RCS Libri (Italy) and Bard (Bulgaria). Please let me know if you spot any of them for sale!

2001: Serbian publisher Zograf releases The Trigger as Okidac. (I hope my name is on the inside, at least…)

December 31, 2001: Hayakawa releases its two-volume edition of The Trigger, translated by Rei Fuyuki. The ISBNs are 4-15-011383-1 and 4-15-011383-X. (I’m as puzzled by the cover art as you are.)

October 18, 2001: Editions du Rocher publishes the first volume of their translation of The Trigger as Le feu aux poudres, tome 1: La détente.

October, 2001: The first translation of The Trigger to reach my hands is the Polish edition from Amber’s Mistrzowie SF I Fantasy imprint. The translators are Radoslaw Januszewski and Maciej Szymanski; the ISBN, 83-7245-639-9.

February 2001: Barry and Sally Childs-Helton’s Tempus Fugitives CD is released by Dodeka Records. This CD reissue of material from Paradox and Escape from Mundania includes my Roland D-20 synthesizer work on several tracks.